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tercio por q cleben volver algo flacas y maltratadas pr. el climn. y la. estacion en un viage tan largo como es a Nacogdoches. Tengo informes ciertos de qe. en esa colonia vale el tabaco a. razon de 8 pesos el quintal a ca.mbio de caballos y otros cfectos : yo presumo que por el dinero se podra conseguir mas barato El ofic.ial conductor •de los rr. y municiones, y por su defecto, mi mayordomo Cipriano del Toro pondra. en poder de V. a su ida, 6 a su regreso precisam 1 • cien pesos pa pagnr el tabaco, y su empaque bajo cuyo concepto puede V. proceder a su compra encargandola al Sr. Williams 6 a otro persona de su confianza, si ·su salud no le permite hacerla pr. si. Dentro de breve nos veremos en esa. J A...~TONIO PADILLA [Rubric]
ROBERT LEWIS TO AUSTIN
Cerralvo 9 th Nov. 1829
Col AusnN DEAR Sm; we arri'rd at this place a few days since and found Cameron here, and both Mr. Sharkey and :Myself being unwell nothing was said on business until we got better; day before yester- day Mr Sharkey sent for him, and informed him he was ready to attend to business, and it was necessary first for us Cameron and myself to come to a proper understanding, as to our affnires,- I then nam 4 to him that I had formd a company in Battinson, to work Certain Mines by authority invested in me by·a.n Instrument of writing, with his signature to it, I ask him if be claimd an interest in the company, he said he did; I then ask him if that was his hand writing and if it containd his signature, he quivocated as much as he could at last he acknowledged his signature, but would not admit its vilidity; but stated it was void long since and said it never was intended to of been usd-but to give more confidence, in aiding me in forming the Company. He said he would allow me an interest in those Mines the Company had contracted to work alluding to the two mines in the Contract but as to aliowing me an interest in other Mines he would not except some at Y guana he naimd these I might have an interest some namino- them and more over he b would not admit of any cantract he ever had mad with me, that he was not to be drove or compeld to do any thing by me- ?f all the lying quivocating schondrals he beats all I ever saw-he said when he gave the Instrument he cold not Deny ownin Mines in his own name notwithstanding .he bound himself to do so, this was fraud within its self,
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